Fanshawe Termino : Pascae Jacobj 11 



A COPPIE OF AN AFFOEDAUIT 



MADE BEEFORE THE BARONS OF 

 THE EXCHEQUER. l 



Cant - Memorandum quod Mich : Flud de Stretham clerke et Tho : 



Frankham de Thetford infra Insulam Eliensem in comitatu Cante- 

 brigie venerunt coram Baronibus Scaccarij xxv to die Maij hoc 

 termino in proprijs personis et sacrum suum praestitere corporale 

 in his Anglicanis verbis sequentibus viz : 



That whereas within the Commons and common Fenn grounds 

 of Stretham and Thetford aforesaid the Commoners and Inhabi- 

 tants of each towne respectiuelie haue had libertie, and of right 

 ought to haue libertie, of feeding and depastureing their workeing 

 horses and workeing mares. Now these deponents say that by 

 reason of libertie giuen to the greater part of either towne aboue- 

 said respectiuelie by an order or decree made in this Courte, in 

 Trinitie terme Anno 5 Jacobj, giueing power to make bylawes, the 

 commoners and inhabitants of Stretham and Thetford aforesaid are 

 debarred of their auncient libertie by a bylawe made by the greater 

 part whereby the Commoners of Stretham are not allowed to- 

 keep a sufficient and competent number of workeing horses or 

 workeing mares there. And the Commoners and inhabitants of 

 Thetford aforesaid haueing libertie to feed as aforesaid are, by a 

 bylaw latelie made, vtterlie debarred and excluded from keeping 

 anie manner of workeing horses or workeing mares vppon those 

 commons, where by auncient custome and by right they ought to 

 bee kept, whereby the arable lands of Thetford aforesaid especiallie 

 lie vntilled and the corne now groweing within the sayd feilds not 

 like to bee preserued in due time at haruest for want of workeing 

 horses and workeing mares for the necessarie vses of the common- 

 ers of each towne aforesaid. Soe, &c. 



Praestitere sacramentum suum 25 die Maij 1609. Geo : SNYGG, 



1 Originally written " to bee made beefore a master of Chancerie," and altered 

 as above. 



